leaden bear
How to automate makemigrations and create a superuser without typing email and password each time?
I'm working on a Django project and wondering how to streamline the development setup a bit.
Right now, every time I run makemigrations and then want to create a superuser, I have to manually type the email and password. I'd like to automate this, ideally by:
Running makemigrations and migrate as part of setup.
Creating a superuser automatically, without interactive prompts (e.g., by providing the email and password in advance).
Here’s the situation:
I have an apps folder with my accounts app inside it: apps/accounts.
In apps/accounts/apps.py, I set the app config like this:
class AccountsConfig(AppConfig):
name = "apps.accounts"
In a migration (0001_superuser.py), I’m trying to automatically create a superuser using values from environment variables:
from django.conf import settings
from django.contrib.auth import get_user_model
from django.db import migrations
def generate_superuser():
email = settings.DJANGO_SUPERUSER_EMAIL
password = settings.DJANGO_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD
user = get_user_model().objects.create_superuser(
email=email,
password=password,
is_staff=True,
is_superuser=True
)
user.save()
class Migration(migrations.Migration):
initial = False
dependencies = [
("apps.accounts", "0001_initial"),
]
operations = [
migrations.RunPython(generate_superuser),
]
But when I run python manage.py makemigrations, I get:
django.db.migrations.exceptions.NodeNotFoundError:
Migration accounts.0001_superuser dependencies reference nonexistent parent node ('apps.accounts', '0001_initial')
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